Re: UI-Question

[Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow mit edu>]

miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx writes:
> 
> > Nextstep has a nice feature, which i really miss in every other OS.
> > Its called Services.
> 
> This is a very good idea and I think it would be trivial to implement.
> 
> I am interested in which kind of data can be passed to a service: only
> marked text?  Would there be any other way to invoke it?
> 
> This can be done by having the GnomeApp widget auto-load the contents
> of the $prefix/share/services and the ~/.gnome/share/services
> directories. 
> 

Actually, probably the best way to do something like this would be
with CORBA. Nextstep does it using analogous features of their
programming environment. I know CORBA progress is coming along a bit
slowly, but I think it would be a poor idea to implement parts of the
functionality we want to use it for in an ad-hoc way. In particular,
using specially named files for IPC sounds very kludgey and non-robust
to me.

 - Maciej